Segment from
American as Pumpkin Pie
All Hale Thanksgiving
In the 1820s, Sarah Hale, a New England widow and the editor of Gody’s Ladies Book made it her mission to get Thanksgiving recognized as a national holiday. Ed talks to Anne Blue Wills, a religion scholar at Davidson College, about how Hale’s 30 year campaign eventually paid off in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War.
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